@BonkDaCarnivore Do you really think the "surrounding infrastructure" contributed much to my 16% increase in property taxes last year? It's an unrealized capital gains tax. Not legal.
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Kevin Penner
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A significant portion of the value of your home is the quality of the surrounding infrastructure - particularly your school district, the quality of the roads, the fire and police departments, etc.
If the municipal infrastructure is part of the value of your property, then you have to have skin in the game to keep those values higher.
Until you come up with an alternative way to see to it that property owners continue to fund the infrastructure that elevates their values, property taxes are how that's handled.
It's not hard.
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone
Why should anyone be forced to pay property taxes. The state doesn’t buy the house you did. You bought the home, improved it, put a mortgage on it and paid for it. The state collects sales taxes & business taxes to fund services. Imagine the 70 year old who owns a home today valued at $2M - they bought 30 years ago for $50,000, maintained the house for 30 years and finally paid the house off - Why should they or their heirs pay any tax much less on the increased value? They will say, “who’s going to support the roads, police, fire department and schools? Sales tax & local businesses can support those things. For those who support property taxes understand you open the door for the state to collect taxes on ALL property; boats, cars, clothes, art, bicycles, gym equipment, grills, tools, silverware, jet skis, stocks, retirement accounts - everything. 27 states reassess annually, and the rest, do so every 3 years OR lie California, any time you improve the property! It’s brutal and it’s endless! If you support property taxes on personal property you are either; a) a communist b) confused c) academic d) free loader End Property Taxes!
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@EricLDaugh Estimates are the US could export 5-6 million barrels per day of crude and a total of 11-12 million total if you add refined products. I guess there will be a long line ate the pump.
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🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: At least 121 EMPTY OIL TANKERS are making their way to the United States of America right now
68 of them can carry 2 MILLION BARRELS EACH.
Holy smokes! We are the world's gas station now! 🇺🇸
TRUMP: "China can send their ships to the U.S., China can send their ships to Venezuela...empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all headed to the U.S. to load up."
Harris Faulkner: "68 of those 121 vessels are very large crude carriers capable of carrying 2 million barrels apiece."
"President Trump has urged countries squeezed by Iran's disruption of the Strait of Hormuz to turn to American energy supplies instead."
"Well — it would appear perhaps they are obliging him. They are listening to Trump!" @HARRISFAULKNER
MASTERCLASS MOVE. Something tells me this was the intended outcome all along!
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@ChoochSkookum It means that we're not impressed by today doing less than we did 50 years ago. If it happened at all.
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We flew around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and no one cares. What does that say about society?
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Y'all can hate me all you want, but I genuinely believe that property taxes should be much higher, with income taxes much lower.
Reduce taxes on the working man's labor, not the landed gentry.
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone
🚨 DONALD TRUMP DEMANDS ‘NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!’ You can’t hate this! President Trump launches national revolution to abolish property taxes which would result in the most powerful economic expansion in U.S. history.
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@amuse US exports 5 million barrels a day now. That is roughly 83% percent of maximum capacity. We probably could do 6 million. An average tanker holds between 1 and 2 million barrels. So in effect we could do maybe 1 more tanker a day.
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@BridgetPhetasy Securing those invites to the chintzy parties in DC
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If you’re giving normie Americans a choice between Alex Jones, Candace Owens and lunatics on the left, they’re picking the MSM. And I reject this nonsensical “Patriot vs Israeli” framing. Just because you all are obsessed with Israel Bad doesn’t mean the rest of the country is.
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@biancoresearch Does the US have it? We export 5 million a day and the straights saw 20 million a day go through it. How much of the difference can we make up?
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Yes, it appears supertankers are heading to the US to get oil.
The US exports 5 million barrels a day. So, the US has it.
BUT....
The majority of Middle Eastern crude oil goes to Asia. That is a 21-day trip from the Persian Gulf versus a 50+ day trip from the United States. (A fully laden supertanker tops out at 14 to 17 MPH)
So, if the world is going to get its crude from the US, it needs twice as many oil tankers.
Expanding the fleet is a 3- to 5-year process.
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
@russp Every empty crude oil tanker over 150k+ tons.
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@coachbrucepearl Probably plays better on Truth social. Not really reading the room here an X.
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Looks like I'm gonna call off my summer trip to Barcelona. Think I will spend my hard earned money someplace else on vacation. Anybody with me on this?
Avi Abraham Benlolo@AviBenlolo
The Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI) condemns the actions of Pedro Sánchez, who has crossed every diplomatic line by withdrawing Spain’s ambassador from Israel while reopening its embassy in Tehran. His call on the European Union to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel further underscores a deeply troubling and one-sided agenda. Such moves reflect a profound moral inversion at a time requiring clarity and leadership. His harsh anti-Israel rhetoric says far more about his political posture than it does about Israel. AGPI urges Spain to reconsider this dangerous course.
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Is this the proper etiquette when trying to get a putting line from another player?
Rory moved right in to see Cam’s line and it pays off.
I say yes. As long as behind the player, there is no issue with being aggressive in getting the look.
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@JimFergusonUK But what the US does for Ukraine is completely different?
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🚨 IF CONFIRMED — RUSSIA JUST CROSSED A RED LINE
Reports claim Russia has handed Iran a list of 55 Israeli energy targets.
Not random.
Mapped.
Categorised.
Prioritised for precision strikes.
Power stations.
Industrial hubs.
Local grids.
The entire energy backbone.
Even the report admits—
This is not independently verified.
But if confirmed—
This isn’t support.
It’s escalation.
Because this would mean:
A direct role in enabling strikes
on a nation’s critical infrastructure.
Not proxy.
Not indirect.
Strategic.
And if that line has been crossed—
The conflict just expanded far beyond the region.
Watch this closely.
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@ninoboxer Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"criminalcharges"hahahahahahaha
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BREAKING: 🚨 Reports indicate that FBI Director Kash Patel may soon reveal federal criminal charges targeting former President Barack Obama along with numerous other figures allegedly connected to the planning and rollout of the Russiagate investigation following the 2016 election.
Sources claim that a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida is being assembled to hear testimony, with potential indictments rumored to begin appearing as early as the start of May.
According to these reports, more than 30 former officials from the Obama administration are said to be cooperating with federal investigators as they build a case centered on accusations that efforts were made to undermine President Donald Trump after the election.
There is also speculation that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon could preside over what some are calling a historic RICO case involving a former U.S. president.
If these developments unfold as suggested, the case could become one of the most consequential political trials in modern American history.
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@EricLDaugh How many hundreds of UN resolutions has Israel ignored?
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🚨 BREAKING: The United Nations' vote to reopen the Strait of Hormuz near Iran JUST FAILED
China and Russia vetoed it.
The UN is PURE USELESS! What do they ever do?
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@EricLDaugh Probably a faster death than destroying their energy supply and starving slowly.
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🚨 BREAKING: Iran is now forming HUMAN CHAINS in front of a power plant in Kazerun in a bid to dissuade President Trump’s strikes come 8PM
They even invited children to attend.
This is evil and disgusting. Iran views their people as meat shields!
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@JesseBWatters Didn't the Apollo missions orbit the moon while waiting for the landing mission to complete? Dark side and all?
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🚨 WE’RE BACK: HUMANS JUST WENT DARK BEHIND THE MOON 🌙
45 MINUTES… ZERO SIGNAL… TOTAL BLACKOUT 😳
ARTEMIS 2 just FLEW FARTHER than ANY HUMAN EVER 🚀
This isn’t a TOUR… it’s the ROAD to a MOON BASE 🔥
NEXT STOP? MARS 🇺🇸🚀
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@redpillb0t War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech.
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@SaltyGoat17 Foreign-Born EmploymentFebruary 2026: 31,168
March 2026: 31,974
Change: +806,000 (an increase of 806 thousand).
fred.stlouisfed.org
Native-Born EmploymentFebruary 2026: 130,985
March 2026: 130,791
Change: -194,000 (a decrease of 194 thousand).
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@DineshDSouza I'm beginning to believe guys like Dinesh and Bongino never read their comments
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“Scratching my rear end is more important than rescuing one million people from a tsunami.”
Look, we get the sentiment—it’s human to feel this way—but it’s also noble to try and look beyond your own ass and your own front yard.
Josiah Lippincott@jlippincott_
Fixing this pothole is more important than bombing Iran.
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@nicksortor Okay, he got a light sentence but that's not the story. He's a Somalian with a room temperature IQ. Who's actually behind the fraud? He certainly didn't devise the scheme. Who's coaching these people and most certainly skimming some off the top?
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🚨 BREAKING: A Somali man from Minnesota who stole $1.1 MILLION in tax dollars meant for meals for children has been sentenced to just ONE YEAR in prison
This is INSANE.
These people have ZERO INCENTIVE not to steal our tax dollars.
SEND THEM BACK
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